2 Enoch 56

2 Enoch 56
Section: Instructions to Sons
Translated by W.R. Morfill, ed. R.H. Charles (1896)

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Methosalem asks a Blessing of his Father ; that he may give him Bread to eat

LVI. 1. Methosalem having answered his father Enoch said’: ‘If it is good in thine eyes, * my father’®, let me

1 Of the lips of your father, B. 2 Bom.

LIV. * That you may have an inheritance of peace and the books which I have given youfrom God, B. * Aom. * Give, A. § Sok. om. 7 Words cannot make known the works of God, B.

LV. ® B adds appointed by God. ° A reads after stand before me. 10 Who wish to go with me, A Sok. 11 So A Sok. but that before on the earth, A adds they now stand; B om. 22 Upper, B;

om. -13 A adds to the highest Jerusalem.

LVI. * Bom. 15 Enoch, Sok.

LIV. See xxxiii. 9 (note). Works LV. 1. See xxxvi. 2. Highest … wonderful, Jobxxxvii.14,16; heavens. Cf. Ixvii. 2. Ps, Ixxi. 17, &e.

72 The Book of the Secrets of Enoch.

put food? before thy face and then, having blessed our houses and thy sons, *and all thy family’, let thy people be glorified by thee; and then afterwards thou wilt depart,

• as God hath said 3.’ 2. Enoch answered his son * Metho- salem and said*: ‘Hear, my child, since God has anointed me with the oil of his glory, there has been no? food in me, *and my soul remembers nothing of earthly pleasure® nor do I desire * anything earthly °.

| Enoch orders his Son Methosalem to call all his Brothers. |

LVITI. 1. But? call all ® thy brothers, and all your? families, and the elders of the people, that I may speak to them and depart * as is appointed for me %, 2. And Methosalem hastened, and called his brethren, Regim, Riman !°, Ukhan”, Khermion, | Gaidal ], and ?? the elders of }3 the people, * and brought them all’ before the face of his father Enoch’. And having blessed them, he spake to them ”*.